AAF NOSE ART

[B-Man2]

YES!!!! gotta love the humor these guys had!

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I’m not sure that was a Disney approved work

 

[jeremiah]

Oh I bet Walt would have approved. Ha.

 

[Bombing IP]

Most of the squadron patches were designs from Disney for the Army Air Corp and the Navy ones were done by Warner Bros ,that was their contribution to the war effort .

BIP

 

[ausreenactor]

Plenty of Disney reference books out there for their nose art.

 

[B-Man2]

Disney put out some classic stuff during the war. Lots of it still in the Wright Patterson AFB Museum.

 

[Grant]

My favorite nose art has nothin to do with Disney, unless Walt was into pinups and kept it on the down low.

 

[Silver Surfer]

these images kinda confirm a pet theory that i have about art....going back to cave art. simply put, art is a form of social glue, ie:; a focal point to keep the tribe, clan, group, etc together though a common understood image.

 

[ausreenactor]

these images kinda confirm a pet theory that i have about art....going back to cave art. simply put, art is a form of social glue, ie:; a focal point to keep the tribe, clan, group, etc together though a common understood image.

Like the Swastika?

 

[ausreenactor]

My favorite nose art has nothin to do with Disney, unless Walt was into pinups and kept it on the down low.

Hips and legs are top of my list too.

 

[Silver Surfer]

yes, like the swastika. abstract imagery can be used and interpreted as needed by by those that feel that it represents, or is a talisman. fyi, the swastika is an ancient symbol, having been found in one form or the other through out the world, going back to pre literate human existence. of some interest is was used by usa as a division shoulder patch during wwll.

 

[ausreenactor]

45 Inf Div!

 

[B-Man2]

Right On!

 

[Grant]

My kinda nose art.

 

[B-Man2]

I’d say ...... that says it all!!
Would love to see one of their A2 jackets ...

 

[Grant]

Fun photo taken in 1943, but a sad ending for this 386th BG Maurader. November 18, 1944 Son-of-Satan had a wing partly shot away in heavy flak. She spun down and exploded on impact. Five of the six crewmembers perished.

 

[CBI]

I find this art offensive............... (circa 2020)

 

[Micawber]

I find this art offensive............... (circa 2020)

Oh dear ....just one of the risqué ones at Bassingbourn...

 

[ausreenactor]

I find this art offensive............... (circa 2020)

Your offence offends me!

 

[ausreenactor]

Fun photo taken in 1943, but a sad ending for this 386th BG Maurader. November 18, 1944 Son-of-Satan had a wing partly shot away in heavy flak. She spun down and exploded on impact. Five of the six crewmembers perished.

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The font is amazing... shadow effect halted due to.....

..... missions.

 

[Grant]

Happy B-26 crew after returning home the morning of June 6, 1944